Creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems
Civilization: Egypt
Name: Oscar Andrade
Theme
How does this theme apply to your civilization?
Agricultural and pastoral production
Agricultural crops and domesticated animals reached egypt from Sub-Saharan Arica by way of Nubia as well as Southwest Asia.
Favorable geographical conditions let Egyptians to build a productive agricultural economy that supported a powerful state.
After about 9000 B.C.E. people's of the eastern Sudan domesticated cattle and became nomadic herders while they continued to collect wild grain.
Trade and Commerce
4000 B.C.E or even before, trade with Nubia.
Traded with mesoptamia 3500 B.C.E.
3000 B.C.E. traded within the Eastern Mediterranean Basin.
After the establishment of the New Kingdom, trade thought the red sea and the Gulf of Aden with a West African land called Punt (modern day Somalia and Ethiopia).
Punt= Gold, Ivory, Ebony, Cattle, Aromatics, and Human Slaves.
Since Egypt had little amount of trees, all wood came from beyond Egypt,
Labor Systems
Some jobs were: woodcutting, pottery, and stonecutting
Creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems
Civilization: Egypt
Name: Oscar Andrade